Princess of Lucques and Piombino, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (Ajaccio, January 3, 1777 - Villa Vicentina, August 7, 1820).
Élisa Bonaparte (born Maria-Anna on January 3, 1777 in Ajaccio and died on August 6, 1820 in Trieste) was the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. Thanks to a scholarship, she was educated at the residence of St Cyr.
Wife of Félix Baciocchi in 1797 from a Corsican family, noble, but poor, and who was then a simple captain (of perfect nonsense, he only reached the rank of captain much later, at the cost of great effort) . She had 5 children of whom only two survived. She came to Paris two years after her marriage, and surrounded herself there with the elite of men of letters, whom she made her usual company.
Her husband was crowned Prince of Piombino and Lucca, but the sovereign power was really exercised by Princess Elisa. She obtained the titles of Grand Duchess of Tuscany in 1809. After the fall of her brother, she lived in private. She retired first to Bologna, then to Germany, and died in Villa Vicentina in 1820.
Of her five children, three had died in infancy. Only Napoleone (1806-1869) who was Countess Camerata and Frédéric-Napoléon (1814-1833) who died of a fall from a horse had survived. As for Bacciochi, he lived until 1841.